Over a week ago, I paused publishing on JimLunsford.com.
I needed a break from the grind of adjusting to my new full-time role while also creating content for the site. I also needed time to work on the behind-the-scenes structure of the site itself. There were tasks I had been neglecting because I was caught in the constant churn of publishing new content.
Thankfully, those tasks are now complete, and I have a clearer outlook on what comes next.
My long-form article and essay cadence will slow down. Not because I am stepping away from the work, but because a lot of the work I have already put in now stands on its own. The core message is out there. The foundation has been built.
I do plan on resuming The Discipline Dispatches and Recovery Standards soon. Those shorter pieces still matter, and I believe they serve an important purpose.
The bigger picture is this: the content I create on JimLunsford.com is becoming the foundation for what I will teach through Disciplined Recovery. I already coach clients using the frameworks I have published. The next step is taking that published content and turning it into structured teaching modules that can be used on the Disciplined Recovery site.
Over the next few weeks, I will be building out Disciplined Recovery. There is a lot of research, planning, and execution ahead, but my goal is to have the foundation completed within the next 30 days.
I also want to be transparent about something else.
During this break from content creation, I have been working on a side project called Bonumark.
Bonumark is a Markdown-first content management system built around a simple idea: your work should stay readable, movable, and yours.
In the last 24 hours, it has actually become two projects: Bonumark Publishing and Bonumark Stream.
Bonumark Publishing will continue to be developed as I described in my previous post. Bonumark Stream will use the core of Bonumark, but it will be built for short-form posting, just like this microblog.
Right now, this site runs on WordPress with a custom theme I built about six months ago. As soon as Bonumark Stream is functioning the way I want it to, I plan to move this site over to it and release the project on GitHub.
I have a lot going on. That is obvious.
But all of it connects.
JimLunsford.com is becoming the source material. Disciplined Recovery is becoming the teaching system. Bonumark is becoming the publishing tool.
It is a lot of work, but it is the right work.
And I am good with that.